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A: The traders would gain profit.

D: The traders would have a life stuck on a boat!

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What did the slave traders believe about slaves?

Slave traders often viewed slaves as property rather than individuals, seen as commodities to be bought and sold for profit. They justified their actions through racist beliefs and the concept of racial superiority, enabling them to exploit and dehumanize those they enslaved.


Did portuguese traders introduce the concept of slavery to Africa?

No, slavery existed in Africa before Portuguese traders arrived. However, the transatlantic slave trade expanded the scale and brutality of slavery in Africa.


How were slaves brought to a new world?

Slaves were brought to the New World from Africa primarily through the transatlantic slave trade. They were captured by African slave traders and then sold to European slave traders who transported them across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. This brutal system of forced labor lasted for several centuries, resulting in millions of Africans being enslaved in the New World.


What criticisms of the slave trade were shared by both Olaudah Equiano and Quobna Ottobah Cugoano?

Both Equiano and Cugoano criticized the brutal treatment of slaves, the inhumane conditions on slave ships, and the dehumanizing effects of slavery on both slaves and slave owners. They also both condemned the hypocrisy of Christian slave traders who espoused moral values while participating in the slave trade.


Are slave traders Pro slavery or Abolition?

Those people could not have cared less one way or the other, it was only money, money, money they were interested in, the slaves were nothing more than merchandise to be bought and sold, so their morals were never questioned.